Processes and Images: research methods in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Recommended Prerequisites

1st Cycle Studies in Social Sciences or related areas.

Teaching Methods

This course is organized around discussion classes of different methods of ethnographic research, and seminar sessions devoted to the presentation and discussion of 'work in progress' developed by students.

Assessment is based on assistance to classes (is required previous reading of the bibliography) and in the two written works presented by students.

Learning Outcomes

Understanding the links between methods and research techniques, theoretical approaches and ethnographic contexts;

Articulation work techniques with subjects, images and artifacts;

Selection of ethnographic research techniques depending on specific cases.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The course is organized in case studies exemplifying the different methods of ethnographic research, based on links between methods and research techniques, theoretical approaches and ethnographic contexts. Variations in use of participant observation, multisited ethnographies, use or analysis of film, photography, images and objects takes into account different contexts.

Head Lecturer(s)

Gonçalo João Duro dos Santos

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 35.0%
Research work: 65.0%

Bibliography

Clifford, J., 1997, “Spatial practices: fieldwork, travel and the disciplining of anthropology” in Routes: travel and translation in the late twentieth century, Londres, Harvard University Press, pp. 52-91.

Edwards, E. E Hart, J. (Ed.), 2004, Photographs Objects Histories: on the materiality of images, Londres, Routledge.

Lima, A. P. e Sarró, R. (Org.), 2006, Terrenos Metropolitanos: ensaios sobre a produção etnográfica, Lisboa, ICS.

Marcus, G. E., 1998, “Ethnography in/of the world system: the emergence of multisited ethnography” in Annual Review of Anthropology, 24, pp. 95-117.

Pink, S., Kürti, L. e Afonso, A. I. (Ed.), 2004, Working Images: visual research and representation in ethnography, Londres, Routledge.

Robben, A.C.G.M. e Sluka, J. A. (Ed.), 2007, Ethnographic Fielwork: an anthropological reader, Oxford, Blackwell Publiching.

Stocking, G.W. (Ed.), 1983, Observers Observed: essays on ethnographic Fieldwork, Wisconsin, UWP.